I have been working at Chevron Products Company full-time (more than 5 years)

Pros

Salary is very good. Very challenging place to work, exposure to a wide variety of interesting situations requiring imaginative solutions. Working here as absolutely strengthened me as a professional.

Cons

Benefits are not as good as one might think. Management does not take responsibility for the environment they have created and, as a result, many situations that should not be adversarial become so, which adds a dimension of challenge that is unnecessary. Worse, though upper management preaches work/life balance, lower management by their actions disagrees and virtually all personnel with which I interact are extremely overloaded, and protests fall on deaf ears. I do not recommend working here.

I worked at Chevron Products Company as a contractor (more than a year)

Pros

If you are good at what you do, it makes them look good so they leave you alone. They give you the tools you need to succeed. They seem to believe in their employees, within bounds. They let me show what I was made of and allowed me to innovate.

Cons

The hierarchy can be bothersome, too many managers to interfere; there is a push to conform, via dress, behavior, etc. and to participated in group/office events; they use too many contractors to fill in on projects when they should hire more full timers who will have the "long" perspective, they have subclasses of employees depending on type, job duties, title, etc. The subclasses gets old after a while.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Less contractors, more innovation, respect people's lives out of the office, loosen up a bit, trust your employees more.

I have been working at Chevron Products Company full-time (more than 8 years)

Pros

FlextimeThe company means what it says when they want input. They actually listen to what you have to say. Chevron also will let you leave your current job and try another job that might fit you better. You have six months to come back if it does not work out. Great Company

Great pay and benefits. Very professional atmosphere. Very strong balance sheet. Awesome retirement should you manage to make it that long. Lots of career opportunity if you are willing to move to San Ramon or Houston.

Cons

Too political and placements are based upon who you know. Similar to other companies. Unfortunately, Chevron is in the process of exiting marketing and moral is down. The smart folks are working to transfer out of Marketing to survive as Chevron proceeds to exit Marketing.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

People are moved very quickly up the ranks once in San Ramon. Most of these do not have field experience or understand the product. Currently, there seems to be a lot of errors in judgment in decision making. It takes forever for the field to reverse and influence leadership to adjust back. Unfortunately, in 2010, Chevron Marketing restructured and laid-off a lot of talent and replaced with experienced people.

If you can get in, the pay is well above average for similar industrial operator jobs. Excellent benefits package, too.

Cons

As with everything when the company gets too big, the corporate hive mind takes over and the bean counters making 7+ figures sacrifice quality for a couple of pennies of profit, and then blame the underlings when things go wrong.

Also, the shift rotation schedule is rather difficult to adapt to at first. There are better schedules out there, but it's up to the employees to accept change, which they don't seem to want to do.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Listen to the people in the field like you claim you are going to. The frustration level at the bottom is palpable. Stop pinching pennies and wasting dollars.

Competitive workplace, excellent salary and benifits, profit driven, organized. Very large company after merging with Texaco so the opportunities are endless. I was very happy with my employment at Chevron and have only good things to say about them.

Cons

Corporate politics are difficult to handle sometimes but are part of the environment.

Empowerment to make decisions at all levelsEmphasis on employee developmentEmphasis and support for Work life balanceLot of opportunities to move around and move higherInternational opportunitiesCares about employee safety and well beingGood communication from management, all directions

Cons

Pay Scale Groups (PSG)Not easy to move fast due to the unofficial 3 year requirement at each PSG.Not much diversity in the middle and upper management, no fresh or diverse thinking at these levels.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

You need to have more X and Y generation employees in the middle management positions. You need some fresh thinking in those positions. Having diversity at those levels would help too.Things move way too slow with current management unwilling to take risks.

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